I looked down and saw that it was the child named "Ergou".

As soon as I saw him, I was stunned, everyone around me was originally noisy, but at this moment I was also stunned, Aunt Hong rushed up from behind me, grabbed the child, and said in disbelief: "What did you say?"

The second dog was a little trembling, the collar on the back of his neck was grabbed by Aunt Hong, and the whole person looked thinner, really like a puppy, and said timidly: "I said - that person, that, he was buried." Yes, it was me who dug him out. ”

I couldn't believe my ears.

Aunt Hong was also completely stupid this time, and looked at him with a pale face: "You, why did you do this?"

As soon as her words fell, a couple walked out of the crowd, looking no more than thirty years old, looking thick and sturdy, as soon as the two came up and grabbed the second dog and began to beat, scolding while beating: "I let you be disobedient, I let you do these bad things!"

"I'll kill you!"

Seeing that they were making such a fuss, I frowned, and was about to ask Aunt Hong to go up and persuade her, but before I could speak, Aunt Hong had already stepped forward and pulled the sleeve of the person who was the father, and said, "Don't do it yet, ask clearly before you fight?"

The father of the second dog was so angry that he was red-faced and wanted to do it, and then I also stepped forward to persuade him, and when I saw that I came forward to stop it, he couldn't do it, but he was so angry that he couldn't speak, and his wife hurriedly said: "The head of the house, let's see what the eldest lady should do first." ”

I nodded, and then looked back at Ergou, his face was red and swollen and his hair was messed up after a few blows just now, I squatted down to look at his frightened eyes, and then said, "You tell me, why are you doing it here?"

“……”

"If you don't say it, we're really going to punish you. ”

Aunt Hong was also anxious when she listened to it in the back, although she usually scolded this child, but at this time she was very protective of him, and said: "You still don't say it quickly?! Do you really want your father to beat you!"

The boy twitched for a moment, and then said softly: "I, I didn't want to dig him out, it's my dog, I took the dog out for a walk last night, and it ran into the woods, and began to dig there." ”

"It's your dog?"

I frowned, and suddenly remembered that last night, when Tang Ting came to look for me, it was already late, and I did hear the dog barking outside.

I asked, "And then?"

Ergou said timidly: "I have been pulling it, but I can't pull it, I also feel strange." My rhubarb has always been very obedient, and it doesn't happen like this, and I suspect that there's something underground, so, I-"

"You're going to plan, too?"

"Hmm. ”

"And you-just dug that man out?"

"That man, his body was dug out of rhubarb, and rhubarb also ruined his clothes......"

He said, as if he was a little scared, shook slightly, and then said: "Then, my father and mother came to me, and I was also scared at that time, afraid that my father and mother would beat me when they saw it, so I didn't have time to bury that person back in the ground, so I ran away......"

As he spoke, he raised his head and looked at Old Man Ma: "Old Grandfather, I really didn't mean to, don't be angry." ”

Old Man Ma just said lightly: "This matter, I'll talk about it later." ”

After speaking, he raised his head and looked at Pei Yuanxiu and Yan Gang.

This time, the other party did not respond immediately, for a while everyone was a little deadlocked, but I frowned, and saw that the two hands of the panicked Ergou were still twisting the corners of their clothes, and the clothes were about to be wrung by him, I leaned in front of him again, and said softly: "Ergou, I have one more thing to ask you." ”

He looked up at me with a panicked look in his big eyes.

I said, "Then why did you come outside my yard at noon today?"

Aunt Hong was stunned for a moment, and immediately remembered that he did come at noon today, but Aunt Hong was worried that he would make me rest and recuperate, so she drove him away.

I said, "Do you want to sue me about this, or do you want to do something-"

“……”

He didn't answer me immediately, but grabbed the corners of his clothes more vigorously with a few fingers, I could feel the contradiction in his heart, and almost all the people in the village looked at him, and his father stepped forward and pushed him by the shoulder: "Say it quickly!

The boy looked up and said, "Actually, actually, I found something on that person's body. ”

"One thing?"

I hurriedly asked, "What is it?"

At this time, Pei Yuanxiu and the others also stepped forward and walked to Ergou's side, and saw Ergou timidly reach into his trouser pocket, take out a small box, put it in the palm of his hand and sent it to me.

When I saw it, I immediately frowned.

It was an iron box, very small, only the size of a fist, and it looked very delicate on the child's palm, and there were some patterns on it, but because it had been buried in the ground, the crevices were also stuffed with yellow mud, and the rest of the place was wiped clean by him, shining silver.

And when Aunt Hong saw it, she immediately recognized it: "This is the box of the Tiejia Money Village!"

That's right, this is the box of the Iron Family Bank.

It's just that I immediately wondered, this was found on Butu's corpse, how could he be carrying the box of the Tiejia Money Estate?

Could it be that after he entered Sichuan, he went to the Tie family to save something?

However, what is there to save in the Tiejia Qian Village? They should be very distrustful of Xichuan, and if there is really anything important, even if they stay in Jinling, they will not bring it to Xichuan.

But why is this box?

For a moment my mind was confused, but there was something inexplicable, which was haunting my mind, as if it were about to remember something.

However, for a while, I couldn't sort out my thoughts.

I reached out with some hesitation and took the box from Ergou's hand, because it was made of iron, so it was heavy, and it shook slightly, and I couldn't hear any sound, and there should be something soft filling in it, so I couldn't feel what was in it at all.

Subconsciously turned his head to look at Old Man Ma, he also frowned, and when he saw me looking at him, he immediately said: "The dead are great, we just bury them, we will not search their bodies and move their bodies." ”

……

So, they didn't know where this thing was, and they never opened it.

This thing, unknown to anyone, was buried underground along with the corpse.

If it weren't for the dog of Ergou's family who went to dig the ground and destroyed Butu's clothes, if Ergou hadn't found this thing, I'm afraid it would have been buried like this forever and become a permanent secret.

It was as if there was something in the dark that would guide the secret from being buried forever.

I sighed softly in my heart, but the greater doubts spread from the heavy box in my hand to my heart.

What's in there?

If I could open it, but I turned the box a little upside down, and I found a small keyhole, very small, about the thickness of two or three needles, and definitely not the usual keys that could be opened.

Just when I was puzzled, Yan Gang suddenly said: "Since this thing belongs to Butu, and Butu is Pei Gongzi's person, of course, this thing should also belong to Pei Gongzi." ”

As soon as the words fell, I raised my head, Pei Yuanxiu's eyebrows frowned slightly, and he was also looking at the box.

Yan Zicong hurriedly echoed: "That's right. ”

I frowned.

Although I don't know what the contents are, it is obvious that they plan to take it first, and then talk about it, as long as they get it, they will use any means to open it, of course, they don't want to keep it in our hands.

But do you really want to give it to him?

This box is made by Tiejia Qianzhuang, what exactly is inside, who knows?

Moreover, just when I saw the keyhole, I had an intuition that although this box was found from Butu's corpse, it must not belong to him, because this special iron box is different from the iron box of ordinary Tiejia Qianzhuang, I don't doubt that Lao Tie must have spent some effort to make it, and with Butu's status, he has something important to use this exquisite box, and even, he did it in Tiejia Qianzhuang.

Moreover, it takes at least a month to make this kind of box.

If that's the case, in Wulong, Tie Yushan should sue me.

Besides, this box - it seems to be some years old.

Just as I was pondering, a dark shadow flashed in front of me, Pei Yuanxiu had already walked to my side, he looked down at me, he didn't speak, but his hand was already stretched out in front of me.

My brow furrowed, and I subconsciously squeezed the box tightly in my hand.

Yan Gang immediately said, "What are you doing, do you want to rob other people's things in broad daylight?"

I said, "This thing shouldn't belong to them." ”

"But the thing was found on someone's corpse!"

"It's also possible that he picked it up, or stole it. ”

"That's—"

"Besides, this box belongs to the Tiejia Money Bank, if they have something important, they won't save it in Xichuan's territory. I suspect that this box belongs to Nishikawa's people, and it was just taken by Butu. ”

"It's just your guess. ”

……

Just when the two of us were arguing, a very weak voice spoke: "It's not speculation. ”

We all looked back and saw Yan Qingchen sitting in a wheelchair, looking at the box coldly.

Suddenly, everyone was stunned.

My heart was shocked: "Light dust ......"

Yan Qingchen said lightly: "This thing belongs to the Xichuan Yan family. ”

Pei Yuanxiu's brows frowned slightly, and he probably realized that the things in this box were really not simple, and said, "You say that, where is the evidence?"

Yan Qingchen said calmly: "Because, the key is in my hand." ”